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FG Urged To Review NYSC Programme, Provide Start-Up Capitals To Corp Members
A former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has suggested that the National Youth Service Corps scheme set up by the Nigerian government to involve Nigerian graduates in nation-building and the development of the country be reviewed in the interest of Nigerian Youths.
Jibrin who represented the Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State on Tuesday, June 9 took to his verified account on the microblogging site, Twitter, to roll out some measures that the government could adopt to better the lives of thousands of Nigerian graduates.
According to the lawmaker, the stipends given to the youths on a monthly basis during their service year could be summed up and handed to them at once as a form of capital which will build thousands of entrepreneurs at the end of each service year.
Jibrin in a long thread of tweet stated that the Nigerian government can obtain a loan to fund the huge sum to be given to the youths as start-up capital.
He said, "As promised yesterday, here is the thread 1-24 sharing my idea on remodelling the NYSC to provide a one-off start-up capital for all corp members. I have tried to capture only the key components. You will not see every detail especially for those who are finicky about details."
"This idea is by no means exhaustive. Feel free to make suggestions, criticise and share opinion. Kindly ensure you read the whole thread before you do that, please. I have added some of my pictures during visits to support the NYSC while I was in the private sector."
"The idea is about using the huge resources we expend every year on the NYSC scheme to do what is more of a priority at the moment- fund startups for all corp members, build thousands of entrepreneurs while retaining and promoting the core objective of the NYSC."
"When you run the numbers adding up the monthly and camp allowances, you will be close to half a million naira. When you collapse the cost of camping and other associated expenditures and add to the allowances of corp members, you will be at half a million naira or above."
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Speaking about the importance of his suggestions, Jibrin noted that a serious-minded corp member should become a millionaire in a few months after receiving the onetime payment.
He said, "I have no doubt in my rough estimate that each corp member can have a minimum of 500,000 naira to start up a business immediately after graduation. A hard-working, focused and discipline graduate can turn this 500k to millions or even more. There are certain issues that will arise. Some of which include- How can govt fund a 500k one-off since it is able to pay allowances of corps members monthly only largely because its revenue comes in instalment?,"
"How do you ensure the money is not misused or taken for granted? How do you deal with those who lack the interest and skills? How can this model sustain other objectives of the NYSC scheme?".
"Govt can provide guarantee and approach banks to provide the funds as loans while the banks receive monthly repayments over a period of not less than 12 months. Interest will be charged per month and deducted from the total amount accrued to each graduate. Banks will accept, there will be tight monitoring. There will be a data bank/website for every set of graduates with full identity and details of business uploaded. All final year graduates will be allocated a bank to open a special account for this purpose."
"All graduates MUST develop a business plan as part of graduation project which will be approved by the monitoring agency and the bank. The present NYSC will be restructured and trimmed to serve as preparatory and monitoring agency,"
"The progress made by businesses will be seen on the website and graduates who excel will be graded. Such grades can qualify you for more opportunities. Those who squander their money will be blacklisted. That can also affect your chances of opportunities. Every institution that produces graduates will have a practical entrepreneurship program for final year students. The program will be of uniform structure to prepare students on the rudiments of entrepreneurship and guide them towards developing an implementable business plan."
"The advantage of technology will be deployed to bring people from far and near together. Govt can also introduce mandatory modules for national unity, integration and development during students university years. The NYSC scheme was established to involve Nigerian graduates in nation-building, national unity, integration and development of the country among other objectives."
Jibrin stated further that, "The Approach to deal with issues of national integration can not be the same as 1974, 45years ago. In today's age, not only Nigeria, the entire world has become a global village largely due to technology. I do not need to live physically or meet physically with a person to understand him or his environment or work together or transact business or cooperate or appreciate our common ground or differences,"
The lawmaker stated that he is not in agreement with the saying that the NYSC programme has failed in Nigeria. According to him, the scheme has served its purpose but only need to be reviewed in the area of expenses.
He said, "However, I do not agree with the opinion that the NYSC is a failed program. The scheme has recorded a lot of milestones too numerous to mention. I only believe it has served its purpose and the need for better utilisation of the resources spent yearly on the scheme."
"What our graduates need are jobs. The public sector has reached a saturation point with little space for attractive employment. A lot of corp members are only used and dumped at the end of service year by many public offices. The private sector with its huge potentials is already feeling the heat. The most viable option is self-employment through entrepreneurship. Also, there is too much pressure on govt resources in between many priorities to embark on a separate job scheme for graduates."
"Working in the private sector, academia and public service over the years, I saw an obstacle to development in Nigeria. we are comfortable doing things the same way even in the face of negative results. Often, we lack the courage to try a different approach,"
Recalling his experience with the scheme during his service year, Jibrin said that the programme need remodelling.
"When I reflect on my service year experience, relationship with the NYSC and corps members years after serving, I am even more convinced that we need to remodel the scheme," he said.
"Before I won election to the house, I made support to the NYSC part of the corporate social responsibility of my company. Year in year out, I visit selected camps, donate utensils and equipment and instituted monetary awards for outstanding corp members."
"I also try to spend quality time interacting with corp members while giving them some motivational speeches. I did my NYSC orientation Dec 1999 in Kubwa, Abuja. The camp was also beneficiary of my gesture. I have managed to dig out some pictures during some of my visits-END."
Reacting to the lawmaker's submission, Victor Edoho-Ukwa, a Nigerian politician said, "like I tweeted yesterday, I am for Nigeria, anything that will jump-start this economy got me 100%. The only objection I have is this money being disbursed as a loan."
He added, On a normal day, this money ought to be their monthly stipends, it shouldn't be paid back."
Giving clarification on Victor's reaction, Jibrin again noted that it is the government that is responsible for obtaining the loan while the graduates only receive the money in bulk so as to enable them to embark on a project that could change their lives.
He said, "Great! It's not a loan to the graduates. It's their entitlements giving to them in bulk. It is the govt that will take loan to enable it give out the money to graduates one-off in bulk while repaying the banks monthly within a 12 months period equivalent to the service term."
Consenting to the lawmaker's statement again, Victor tweeted, "I am all in Honourable, how can we be of help to make this a law?".
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A/56/462
S/2001/962
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda items 21 (d), 25, 41, 42, 43, 118 and 166
Cooperation between the United Nations and regional
and other organizations: cooperation between the United
Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference
United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
Question of Palestine
The situation in the Middle East
The situation in Afghanistan and its implications
for international peace and security
Right of peoples to self-determination
Measures to eliminate international terrorism Security Council
Fifty-sixth year
Letter dated 11 October 2001 from the Permanent Representative of Qatar
to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
I have the honour to transmit herewith the following documents of the ninth Extraordinary Session of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), held at Doha, Qatar, on 10 October 2001:
I. Text of the address of His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, Chairman of the Ninth Islamic Summit Conference of OIC, at the opening of the session (annex I);
II. Text of the final communiqué (annex II).
I should be grateful if you would have the text of the present letter and its annexes circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda items 21 (d), 25, 41, 42, 43, 118 and 166, and of the Security Council.
(Signed ) Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser
Annexes to the letter dated 11 October 2001 from the Permanent Representative of Qatar
[Original: Arabic]
Address of His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar,
Chairman of the Ninth Islamic Summit Conference, at the opening meeting of the
ninth extraordinary session of the OIC Foreign Ministers,
held at Doha on 10 October 2001
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Your Excellency Brother Yassir Arafat, President of the State of Palestine,
Your Highness and Excellencies,
Your Excellency Dr. Abdul Wahid Belkziz, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference,
Representatives of Arab and Islamic Organizations in the United States of America,
Honourable guests,
This meeting is held in the wake of very grave events that will certainly have wide repercussions on the international situation and the Muslim nation for a long time to come. The expected American military action on Afghanistan, backed by the support of the allied States, was launched on the seventh of this month as a response to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington last month, which shook the whole world with the heavy losses of the lives of innocent people, and the extensive destruction of a number of public and private properties it caused in the United States of America.
The consequences of this terrorist act and the military response to it will be casting their shadows on the entire world and presenting immense challenges not only to our Islamic countries but also to the whole international community. All this makes it incumbent upon us to meet for consultation on what we have to do to face up to these circumstances and on ways of dealing with their causes and consequences.
Allow me, on this occasion, to extend on your behalf to the people and Government of the United States of America our deep condolences and sincere sympathy and to stress our strongest condemnation of what has happened and our denunciation of these ignominious acts and the killing of the innocent and terrorizing of the peaceful. Such acts are contrary to all human values, international customs and heavenly laws and religions, including our true Islamic creed which advocates peace among human beings and urges tolerance, love and equality and not enmity and hatred.
While stressing our unequivocal rejection of these acts, we find that countering them should not affect innocent civilians and should not extend to any but those who carried out those attacks. This requires providing conclusive evidence against the culprits. The military action should be exclusively confined to the perpetrators after the release of such evidence, so that the international community can determine its position with discernment and substantiated evidence. Innocent peoples should not be the ones who eventually have to pay. This places on all of us considerable responsibility towards the Afghan people, who have suffered for long decades from wars and conflicts that have displaced millions of their sons and completely destroyed their infrastructure. The Ninth OIC Summit Conference, held at Doha, affirmed the urgent need to set up a fund to extend aid to the people of Afghanistan under the auspices of OIC. I think it is high time that a decision was taken to establish this fund, for which I announce here the contribution of the State of Qatar the sum of US$ 10 million.
Dear brothers,
Stating our position on these events, particular those that directly affect us as Muslims and those that affect us as members of the international community, requires that we point out first of all that our true religion holds human life high and respects the right of people to live in peace and security.
Islam is a religion of peace; its greeting is peace. Even at times when the Muslims were at their strongest and most powerful, it pursued the course of peace and tolerance and upheld the rights of non-Muslims living under Islamic rule. It guaranteed their security and their sanctities and sacred places as well as their full civil rights.
Hence our condemnation of terrorism is not aimed at removing suspicion from Islam; it is denunciation of extremism, which exists throughout human societies and is not confined to a specific creed, culture or race. Moreover, it is necessary for countering extremism to address its causes that stir hatred and lead to violence.
The Islamic world was among the first to call for dialogue among civilizations as a means for interaction, agreement and rapprochement of their peoples, instead of falling into conflicting sects and opposing camps and being divided by clashing dichotomies based on the principle of "If you are not on my side, then you are against me". It is known to all that the United Nations General Assembly will soon issue an international document on dialogue among civilizations on the basis of an Islamic initiative and with reference to Islamic studies and documents which will be pivotal to this document.
This proves that the Islamic world has always been an active part of the international community on account of its civilization being one of international orientation, far removed from isolationism, introversion, xenophobia or antagonism to other civilizations or feeling the necessity of fighting or taking revenge on them.
Moreover, the Organization of the Islamic Conference was a forerunner in adopting a firm position on terrorism. Several years ago it arrived at a code for combating international terrorism, which was later included in a draft convention which the Islamic countries were invited to endorse.
Examination of past experiences allows us to arrive at formulas that would enable us to counter this hateful phenomenon, which does not differentiate between one race or another, nor recognize political or geographic boundaries or social or economic doctrines. The first thing that this requires is to work more for activating the role of the United Nations as the framework which holds together all countries of the world and represents international legality based on its Charter, which basically aims at maintaining international peace and security. To that end, the United Nations should call for an international conference to draft an international convention on combating terrorism that will be binding on all countries. The United Nations must carry out its full responsibilities for the codification of the provisions of that convention, its implementation, putting it into effect and setting the penalties for violation of its provisions, so that the combating of international terrorism is carried out under the United Nations umbrella and command, in accordance with the criteria agreed upon, the most important of which is the definition of terrorism and distinguishing between terrorism, on the one hand, and the struggle of peoples against foreign occupation and their legitimate right to defend their freedom and exercise self-determination as a natural right guaranteed by international law and customs on the other.
From this standpoint, the Palestinian people in their struggle for the liberation of their homeland are practising a lawful right in resisting the occupation that has usurped the land, displaced its people and imposed a policy of starvation and siege and the assassination of leading political figures, in its continuing attempts to stifle the freedom of these people and suppress their independence.
The international community should not permit the recent events in the United States of America to distract it from its role and blind it to shouldering its responsibilities towards the State terrorism practised by the Israeli Government against the Palestinian people, its grave escalation of the situation in the region and its attempt to exploit these events to create new situations in the region that would threaten security and stability.
The atrocities perpetrated against the Palestinian people are nothing but organized terrorism practised by the Israeli State against unarmed people who have no alternative other than resistance in defence of their rights, the protection of their holy places and standing up against the humiliation, oppression, killings and displacement inflicted upon them.
I must state here that there are voices in our Islamic Nation which spell out that State terrorism begets terrorist organizations, and that violence breeds violence. The only way to break this vicious circle is to grant the Palestinian people their legitimate rights, foremost among which is their right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent State on their national soil, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
From this standpoint, we call upon the international community, and primarily the United States of America, which is also one of the co-sponsors of the peace process along with the Russian Federation, as well as upon all influential international parties, to shoulder their responsibilities and provide the required international protection for the Palestinian people in the face of the Israeli war machine, as a preliminary step towards the resumption of the peace process on its original bases, in accordance with the resolutions of international legality and the principle of "land for peace".
I should like, on this occasion, to express satisfaction at the statements, in this respect, made by the United States President George Bush when he spoke of establishing the Palestinian State as being part of the strategic American vision of settling the conflict in our region. This position represents, in our view, a positive development of great importance, which will put things on their true course. We cannot but express the hope that the United States will move quickly to put this position into effect and seek to attain this strategic goal in the framework of the relevant international resolutions adopted in this connection so as to make it possible to pave the way for bringing about comprehensive, durable and just peace for all peoples and States in the region.
I must also commend the fair and responsible position taken by the United States President and the leaders of the European States in opposing attempts to exploit those tragic events to falsely accuse the Arabs and Muslims of terrorism, as well as their stand against those dubious attempts to insult Arabs and Muslims.
You are most welcome in your country. I hope that your meeting will bring about a unified position on the extremely grave events that are taking place in the world today. I beseech Almighty God to bestow success on you for the good of our Islamic Nation and the whole world.
May the peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you.
Final communiqué of the ninth extraordinary session of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers,
held at Doha, Qatar on 10 October 2001
At the gracious invitation of His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar and Chairman of the Ninth Islamic Summit Conference, the Foreign Ministers of the States members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference held an extraordinary session at Doha, capital of the State of Qatar, on Wednesday, 10 October 2001, to discuss the repercussions of the events which took place in the United States of America and their effects worldwide and in particular on member States.
The Conference was opened by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar and Chairman of the Ninth Islamic Summit Conference, who delivered an address in which he referred to the situation that resulted from the recent terrorist attacks in the United States of America and its consequences for the world in general and member States in particular.
His Excellency Mr. Yasir Arafat, President of the State of Palestine, then delivered a speech to the same effect, as well as pointing out the grave situation prevailing in the Palestinian territories.
Then a message from His Majesty King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of Morocco, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, was read out, followed by a speech by His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The Conference commended the address by the representative of the Islamic and Arab Organizations in the United States on behalf of the Muslim communities residing in the United States of America. It also welcomed the Christian-Islamic delegation accompanying President Yasir Arafat.
The Conference then proceeded to elect its Bureau as follows:
– State of Qatar - Chairman;
– Malaysia ]
Republic of Senegal ] Vice-Chairmen;
State of Palestine ]
– Republic of Mali - Rapporteur.
His Excellency Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani, Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar and Chairman of the ninth extraordinary session of Foreign Ministers of States members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, then assumed the Chair.
After debate and discussion, the Conference reached the following conclusions:
1. The Conference strongly condemned the brutal terrorist acts that befell the United States, caused huge losses in human lives from various nationalities and wreaked tremendous destruction and damage in New York and Washington. It further reaffirmed that these terrorist acts ran counter to the teachings of the divine religions as well as ethical and human values, stressed the necessity of tracking down the perpetrators of these acts in the light of the results of investigations and bringing them to justice to inflict on them the penalty they deserve, and underscored its support of this effort. In this respect, the Conference expressed its condolences to and sympathy with the people and Government of the United States and the families of the victims in these mournful and tragic circumstances.
2. The Conference, proceeding from the provisions of the OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism, reaffirmed the willingness of its member States to effectively contribute to an international collective effort, under the umbrella of the United Nations as the forum where all States of the world are represented, to define the phenomenon of terrorism in all its forms and without selectiveness or double standards and to contribute also to addressing its causes, eradicating its roots and achieving international security and stability.
3. The Conference stressed that such shameful terrorist acts are opposed to the tolerant divine message of Islam which spurns aggression, calls for peace, coexistence, tolerance and respect among people, highly prizes the dignity of human life and prohibits the killing of the innocent. If further rejected any attempts to allege the existence of any connection or relation between the Islamic faith and the terrorist acts, as such attempts are not in the interest of multilateral efforts to combat terrorism and further damage relations among peoples of the world. It stressed as well the need to undertake a joint effort to promote dialogue and create linkage between the Islamic world and the West in order to reach mutual understanding and build bridges of confidence between the two civilizations.
4. The Conference welcomed the positions adopted by both the United States and the other countries that called on their citizens to avoid causing any harm to citizens of Arab and Islamic descent and to Arabs and Muslims residing therein. It also called upon the international community to undertake the necessary measures to protect the rights of innocent civilians and avoid causing any harm to them during the process of undertaking any preventive measures in the fight against the phenomenon of terrorism and denounced aberrant voices that have tried to cause harm to Islam and Muslims.
5. The Conference reaffirmed the need to convene an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations to reflect the rejection by the international community of the use of terrorism in international relations, to agree on its definition and to draw up an international plan to combat terrorism within the framework of respect of member States' sovereignty and of international law. The United Nations, on the basis of such universally recognized definitions and guidelines, is the legitimate body to determine engagement or support for terrorism by any State or group.
6. The Conference stressed its rejection of any linkage between terrorism and the rights of the Islamic and Arab peoples, including the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, the right to self-determination, self-defence, sovereignty and resistance against Israeli and foreign occupation, all of which are legitimate rights enshrined in the United Nations Charter and international law.
7. The Conference expressed hope that preoccupation with the effects of the events which befell the United States would not lead the international community to neglect shouldering its responsibilities vis-à-vis the State terrorism practised by the Israeli Government and to which the Palestinian people is being subjected and Israel's serious escalation of the situation in the region.
8. The Conference warned Israel of the consequences of its exploitation of these events as a pretext for perpetuating its aggression against the Palestinian people and the creation of new situations in the region which are likely to jeopardize security and stability therein.
9. The Conference requested the Security Council and the co-sponsors of the peace process, the United States and the Russian Federation, as well as the European Union and its member States, to exert their utmost effective efforts in order to lift the blockade and stop Israel's brutal practices, provide international protection for the Palestinian people and end the Israeli occupation of all Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967.
10. The Conference stressed that the international initiative towards achieving security and stability in a world free from terrorism and injustice must also include the achievement of security and justice for the Palestinian people, the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital, and the protection of the Christian and Islamic holy places. In this context, the Conference also welcomed the statements of President George W. Bush about the right of the Palestinians to establish their own State, which were supported by the Russian Federation, the European Union, China, Japan, the African States, the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, the international community and the United Nations, as a positive development in conformity with the resolutions of international legitimacy. It further expressed hope that the United States would immediately initiate the practical implementation of that issue and endeavour to achieve this strategic objective of establishing a just and comprehensive peace for all States and peoples of the region.
11. The Conference expressed its concern over the possible consequences of the fight against terrorism, including the death of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, and underlined the necessity of ensuring the territorial integrity of Afghanistan and its Islamic identity. It rejected the targeting of any Islamic or Arab State under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
12. The Conference welcomed the proposal by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar and Chairman of the Ninth Islamic Summit Conference, to establish a fund to assist the Afghan people and His Highness's announcement to donate the amount of ten million US dollars (US$ 10,000,000) to this fund. It also welcomed the announcements of donations by the United Arab Emirates in the amount of three million US dollars (US$ 3,000,000), and the Sultanate of Oman in the amount of one million US dollars (US$ 1,000,000) to the fund for assistance to the Afghan people. The Conference took note of the announcement made by His Royal Highness the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that the Kingdom has made a donation of ten million US dollars to the Afghan people and that the assistance has already reached its destination in Afghanistan. It further took note of the fact that the Kingdom will contribute to the rehabilitation projects specifically developed for the people of Afghanistan and urged the rest of the member States to continue to make donations to this noble humanitarian cause.

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WBO world lightweight champion Terry Flanagan will target "big names" if he successfully defends his title against Petr Petrov on Saturday.
Flanagan, 27, is unbeaten in 32 fights and believes taking on elite fighters will upgrade his reputation. One contest he has campaigned for is two-weight world champion Vasyl Lomachenko.
"I want to start testing myself against the best," the Briton told BBC Sport.
"There's no point saying 'I'm the best' if the people I'm fighting aren't."
Manchester-born Flanagan has been touted as a future opponent for Jorge Linares, the WBC and WBA champion who beat Britain's Anthony Crolla last month, and his promoter Frank Warren wants to reward his fighter's ambition.
"He's been on the phone to me a lot. He says he wants to fight Linares. He wants to fight Vasyl Lomachenko, which surprised me," said Warren.
"But if he gives a good account of himself and comes through on Saturday, we'll try and get him a fight with either of them two next."
Standing in his way of those contests is former world title challenger Petrov, 34, who has only been knocked out once by Marcos Maidana, the Argentine who lost to Britain's Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather twice.
"I've got the power to take him out but Petrov's durable, fit and his hands are always busy," said Flanagan.
"It's hard to knock someone out when they are determined to win a world title away from home. It's hard to beat a man who has set his sights on that.
"I know there may be some close rounds that I will lose, but I will definitely make sure I get the win at the end."
Flanagan has the best unbeaten record compared to any other current world champion in Britain but he is still a relative unknown to the wider public.
Warren nicknames him 'the quiet man', but believes Flanagan's attitude will change the public's perception of the sport.
"In the recent months, we've had a lot of foul language and stunts in boxing that really aren't needed. It's been very unsavoury," said Warren.
"That's not Terry at all. He does his talking in the ring. If he was to be a bit of a Jack the lad and rude to people, maybe he would've been better known in the public?
"But I think that's all going to change. The 'quiet man' as we call him will go out there and make a lot of noise."
Is boxing's Manchester derby possible?
One potential big fight that has been suggested is Flanagan against his former school mate Crolla in an all-Manchester bout. But, despite a reported £1m offer, Flanagan thinks the fight is dead after Crolla's two defeats by Linares.
"I don't think it will happen," he added. "We asked for the fight when he was world champion and we got turned down.
"He needs to build himself back up now before a fight with me, or it might not happen because I'm looking at bigger fights or I may move up to light-welterweight.
"We always want big fights now and I know the public still want it, but it isn't a fight we're looking at. I want unification fights."


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Фонд Лесі та Петра Ковалевих — фонд при Союзі українок Америки, заснований у 1967 році для підтримки творців української науки та літератури.

Фундатори нагороди у своєму заповіті відзначили: «Ми хотіли б заохотити до змалювання минулого чи сучасного України…».

Подружжя Ковалевих
Подружжя Ковалевих походило з центральних українських земель.

Петро Ковалів до 1919 року працював аташе дипломатичної місії Української Народної Республіки в Голандії та Бельгії, Пізніше подружжя Ковалевих мешкало у Швейцарії.

Створення Фонду було виявом їхнього патріотизму та усвідомлення значення літератури та науки для національного розвою.

Конкурс

Лауреатами премії Фонду Лесі та Петра Ковалевих у різні роки були Леонід Плющ, Тамара Гундорова, Юрій Андрухович, Софія Майданська, Оксана Забужко, Марта Тарнавська, Віра Вовк, Василь Ґабор, Михайлина Коцюбинська, Олександр Ірванець, Василь Махно, Лариса Онишкевич, Оксана Луцишина, Богдана Матіяш, Раїса Лиша, Марія Ревакович, Остап Сливинський, Дзвінка Матіяш, Софія Андрухович, Мирослав Лаюк, Богдан Задура (Польща), Василь Герасим'юк, Василь Голобородько, Андрій Любка, Любов Якимчук і Зеня Томкінс.

На оголошений в 2019 році конкурс приймаються твори, написані українською мовою. Номінації: «Поезія», «Проза», «Переклад» (поезія, проза).

Переможці у кожній з номінацій отримають грошові винагороди — по 1000 доларів США відповідно.

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Фонди
Українська діаспора США
Літературні премії США
Засновані у США 1967

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Scrambled Narratives
posting tuesdays, thursdays, & saturdays
Author: Eliza James
I love to play with different perspectives in a story or jump back and forth through time. I post Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
Guardians of Time – Part 11
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Frank and Josephine watched the twins race off on their bikes. "Come on," Frank grinned at her, holding out his hand for her to take as they continued on their hike.
When they got to the top they found a flat, smooth rock to sit so they could look out at the city below. They chatted and laughed for awhile, but Josephine was distant and distracted.
"Are you okay?" Frank asked, after awhile, looking at her with concern.
"Sorry, I just have a lot on my mind today." She twisted her hands in lap. Finally, she said, "Maybe we should head back down before the sun goes down and we're stuck hiking in the dark."
"Just a minute." He reached into his pocked and pulled out a ring. Before she could process what was happening, he was on his knee looking at her. Her face broke into a nervous smile.
"Will you marry me?" he asked.
"Yes, of course I will," she said. He slipped the ring on her finger and they hugged, but her smile was still strained and her eyes kept darting at the trees all around them.
Frank couldn't stop smiling the whole way down the hill. He discussed when they'd get married and how many kids they'd have, and she quietly agreed to what he was saying, not really taking it in.
"Twin boys," Frank said, as they walked through the woods back to the road. "We'll have twin boys."
"Wait what did you say?" she stopped him by placing a hand on his chest.
"Twin boys?" he hesitated. "I mean, they don't have to be boys. Or twins."
"Hey mister!" a voice called behind them.
They turned around to see the boys were back. "You want to see something really neat?"
"What is it?" Frank asked.
"Ricky found a bat in our fort!"
Josephine's face took on a determined look. "Sure."
They turned off the path and followed the boys to their fort. As they pushed through the brush into the clearing, the boys were already standing outside the fort which was a collection of broken sticks and boards propped up and leaning haphazardly against each other for support.
"It's in here," one of the boys said.
Frank was about to duck into the fort, when Josephine pushed past him. She kicked at the boards near the entrance and shoved them to the ground causing the whole structure to collapse in on itself burying the bat.
"Hey!" One brother shouted.
"What'er you doing?" the other asked.
"Opps," she said.
"Opps?" Frank asked, looking at her with wide eyes.
She shrugged. "I don't like bats. They scare me. And that one looked sick. I didn't want anyone getting sick."
"You can't get sick from a bat," one of the brothers said, glaring at her.
"We were going to show Phillip," the other said, kicking at the dirt. "That's what we get for showing a stupid girl."
"Sorry," Frank said to them holding his hands up in the air. The twins glared back.
"What was all that about?" Frank asked, once he and Josephine were back on the path.
"Just fixing the future." She smiled and took his hand as they walked home.
"Okay," he said, tentatively, raising his eyebrow.
Earl sighed with relief. Their plan had worked.
"I think it must have worked a little too good," Sam said. "We should have been locked away for centuries. We extracted a civilian without any preparation, and then reinserted her. That goes against all of our laws. What else changed?"
Someone knocked at the door. A moment later Larry, Earl's boss popped his head in. "Oh good. You're both here. I have a new assignment for you. Sam, you're officially done you're training, and you both will be working together from now on."
Tagged Fiction, Short Story, The Guardians of Time, Writing
Sam and Earl waited in a cold, cement room without windows or lighting; at least none that were giving off any light. Everything was black. The ground was hard as was the wall they leaned against.
Sam managed to fill the empty air with an endless stream of chatter that Earl had long since tuned out. All he could think about was: did it work? Had he saved his grandchildren? Or had he undone the miracle and brought back the Hospital Hitmen? Neither sat well with him. But maybe, just maybe everything had worked out as planned.
A crack of light sliced through his field of vision and spilled out across the floor.
"Congratulations," a gravely voice announced from behind the light. "You're both free to go."
Sam scrambled to his feet as Earl groaned in unison with his popping joints and straining muscles. How long had he been sitting on the ground?
"That's it?" Earl asked, but the person behind the voice had already left. Earl shielded his eyes against the light that pierced his eyes and send spasms of pain into his skull. Once they're eyes adjusted, they made their way down the hallway past door after door. They ignored the pounding thumps and cries for help behind some of them and continued to walk towards the exit at the end of the hall. A guard stood in front of it blocking their path.
"Er, we were told we were free to go?" Earl said, uncertainly.
The guard grunted. "You wouldn't be if it were up to me," he said as he grudgingly unlocked the door.
They silently passed by him through the door. As the door slammed shut behind them Sam whispered, "Glad it's not up to him then."
Earl nodded, but was starting to panic. They'd let them go. That could only mean that whatever they did, it had somehow made an even better past for them; but, what did that mean for Josephine? They hurried through the halls careful to avoid people as best they could. There were a few, "Good to see you're back!" as well as several, "We missed you!" and one "Hey Robert," which they both found a bit perplexing.
Finally, Earl closed his office door after they'd escaped into the quiet inside. He rapidly typed in his password and flashed through a few different screens until he came to the timeline he was looking for. From here, they couldn't interact with the past, but they could view it.
Josephine held hands with her steady beau as they hiked through the woods to the hill they liked to hike. Frank looked down at her as they walked toward the hill, but she was looking into the woods with a worried look on her face.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
She smiled a bit too brightly. "Nothing," she said. She froze when she heard the sound of two kids on bikes racing down the path towards them. She pulled him to the side as they flew by. "You okay?" she asked.
The second boy skidded to a stop up ahead and looked behind them.
"Gee, sorry mister. We didn't see you."
The other boy had by now realized his brother had stopped and turned back to see what was happening. Josephine looked at their identical faces staring at her and froze.
"No harm done. Just be more careful next time," Frank said.
"C'mon Ricky!" the other boy called.
Ricky grinned and nodded, before racing off to catch up to his brother.
"Looks the same so far," Sam said.
"It won't be." Earl replied. "This time, she's going to change everything."
Guardians of Time – Part 9
The water in the pool shimmered and waved before settling into an artificial calm that was so still there wasn't even the whisper of a ripple. From the depths of the water appeared the old farmhouse where Earl used to live with his family. The image was a bird's eye view.
Through the door of the house stepped Josephine at eighteen years old. Her long dress softly blew in the breeze. It was a couple of days before the proposal. He would have loved to step into the pool and join her back in her life. This time around he would be there to congratulate her, to walk her down the aisle, and to hold his grand kids, but he knew he couldn't. Not if he wanted her to be happy.
He could, however, extract her. Just for a moment. It would be the first time he could talk to her since she was six. He knew his wife had told her he'd died. It's what she believed as well. When they extracted him they faked his death. Part of him had been grateful because it meant they had closure and didn't think he'd abandoned them. But now, he was about to ripe that scab off.
He bounced on the balls of his feet as he waited both terrified and excited at the same time. He watched her as she walked down the path towards the road.
"Ready?" Sam asked.
"Ready."
"Now remember, we only have a few minutes. The extraction isn't on their schedule so it will immediately alert the night guards.
He heard the sound of the lever being pulled. For a moment nothing happened. Suddenly, the world inside the pool flipped upside down and Josephine was falling towards the sky, falling up towards him.
"Hold on! Here she comes!" Sam yelled from his place by the controls.
The water gave a huge splash as she exploded out of the pool and hit the net high above them. Sam pulled another lever and the net closed around her and caught her as she lost momentum and started falling back towards the pool.
She screamed as she was encased by the net. Sam pushed another button and the net swung around and dropped her onto the floor near Earl's feet. She battled against the ropes as they loosened. It took her a couple of tripping tries to get free as her foot kept getting caught..
"Hello Josie," Earl said quietly, once she was free.
She stared at him in stunned disbelief. "Am I dead?"
"No," he said, quickly. "No, no, no! You are very much alive. We just had to pull you out of the inner world for a moment."
"The inner world?"
"Yes. To warn you."
"How are you alive? And here?" she asked, stepping towards him "Where is here."
"The inner world."
"Yes, you said that.
"We need to hurry this up," Sam said, by the dials. "The extraction will have triggered their alarms. Warn her and let's send her back."
He turned to her and held her by her arms. "In a couple of days Frank is going to propose."
"He is?" she smiled.
"And," he continued on without stopping. "You're going to meet a couple of twin boys that same day who will take you to see a bat they've found."
"What?" she frowned.
"Quickly, they're coming," Sam said.
Footsteps thundered down the hallway towards them.
"The bat. It's going to bite Frank and make him sick."
"So don't go with the twins?" she asked, looking at him bewildered.
"Yes, I mean no, I mean, yes go with the twins, because if you don't, the bat bites someone else and then they die. You have to go, but get rid of it."
"O-o-okay," she said, hesitantly.
Suddenly the doors flew open. Sam grabbed her shoulders and pushed her into the pool where she disappeared into the rippling water.
"On your knees," the guard shouted.
"Do you think it worked?" Earl whispered to Sam as they were arrested.
The extraction room was a gymnasium sized room with what looked like a pool of water in the middle. Hovering high above the pool was a giant net that spanned both the length and width of the pool. Along one wall was a massive panel of dials, levers, and numbers.
It was in this room that both Sam and Earl had first stepped into the outer world. It was here that the Guardians of Time pulled chosen recruits from their lives; usually after a long consultation with the applicants and strenuous tests. In Sam's case, however, it was completely against his will and without his knowledge.
There were times when someone chose to abandon the mission and return to their own timeline. It was impossible to enter someone else's timeline, and there were strict rules stipulating that one could only enter at the point in time that one left. But Sam was very comfortable with ignoring the rules.
Earl, despite it being his idea, was not.
"How old was she when you last saw her?" Sam asked. He stood at the control panel and started inputting information into the computer.
"Just 6 years old. I thought I was going to make this massive difference in the world and that it would all be worth it." He looked down at ground, gently bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet.
"And was it?"
"I don't know. We've erased wars and plagues and helped millions of people, but if I've somehow ruined her life, somehow I feel like I've failed. Like it was all a mistake." He looked over at Sam. "Does that make sense?"
"No," Sam said, not looking up.
Earl frowned. "What about you? If you want to get back to your timeline so badly, why don't you just go?"
"I tried. My father sealed off my timeline. I can't access it."
"I thought everyone was supposed to have access to their timeline?"
"Yeah, well my father seems to enjoy making exceptions when it comes to me." He turned around to face Earl. "Okay, I think it's set. Are you ready?"
Earl stared down at the pool. Below him flickered an image of the old farmhouse where they used to live before he'd joined the Guardians of Time. He had one shot to make this work.
"What do you mean, it's going to be harder to reverse the timeline?" Earl asked.
"The Hospital Hitmen chronology was undone when we changed Josephine's timeline," Sam said. "That's what all the streamers and balloons are for."
Dread filled Earl. everyone knew about the Hospital Hitmen. Over the course of 10 years through the strategic planting of bombs in hospitals around they country. They would go silent for a couple years then take out entire floors at 5-6 different hospitals. People were terrified to go there so even more died because they had no where to go for help. Doctors, nurses, and hospital staff stages walk-outs. An entire department had been dedicated to reversing the acts of the Hospital Hitman and after 30 years they were no closer to finding the key to undoing.
He walked over to the computer station where Sam sat. Sam turned the monitor to face him.
"Hey, how did you access this?" Earl asked, looking over at Sam in confusion.
Sam gave him a guilty look. "I swiped my dad's password. Now look." He pointed at the monitor. "When the twins ran into Frank and Josephine the second time, they were actually on their way to find their older brother, Phillip. Before we reversed the timeline—"
"We?"
"Alright, before I reversed the timeline, they avoided Frank the second time because he had yelled at them on their way up the mountain. But in the new timeline, he was friendly, so they got sidetracked and offered to show him the bat they'd found. They lost interest in the bat after it bit Frank and they forgot to get their brother. Phillip was never bitten, so he didn't contract rabies, and went on to live his own life."
"So what?" Earl said. "What does that have to do with the Hospital Hitmen?"
"The twins were the Hospital Hitmen. In the first timeline, when Philip died, their parents blamed them for his death and they in turn blamed the hospital. Philip was valedictorian and had a scholarship to attend University in the fall. The parents pinned all their hopes and dreams on him and when he died, their dreams died with him. The twins didn't have the same academic prowess, and under the constant condemnation and abuse at home, they didn't amount to much."
"But the Hitman didn't strike until the late 80's, early 90's. This happened in the 60's."
"Right," Sam said, clicked through different windows on the computer.
"Wait a second. How do you know how to do all this? You could barely navigate the computer in training and now suddenly you're a savant."
Sam shrugged his shoulders. "I've been through training 12 times. I guess some of it stuck after all."
"12 times! Why don't you just quit?"
"Can't. Apparently I signed up for this life by being born." He grimaced. "Here, check this out. They didn't strike until after their mother died. Apparently, the only thing she left her sons was a letter saying how much of a disappointment they were and again blaming them for the death of their older brother, the golden child. When we changed—" he stopped short when he saw Earl glaring at him. He held up his hand and rolled his eyes. "When I changed the timeline, Phillip didn't die, their parents kept their eyes on him, and the twins were able to grow up out from under the umbrella of abuse and shame. There was no need for revenge, so no one bombed the hospitals."
Earl stared at the screen trying to process everything. "Alright. So we need to be careful. But, I don't care how we do it. Frank has to live at the end."
"You don't get it. If Frank doesn't visit the bat, then the twins get Phillip and we're back to the original timeline. The Hospital Hitmen killed hundreds of thousands of people. Not to mention all of the people who died because they were terrified to go to a hospital. Why would you risk undoing all of that for one person you don't know?"
"I'm not saying it's not sad, but none of this was Josephine's fault. She shouldn't have to be the one to pay the price. We have to fix her future." He slammed his fist onto the desk.
"Why do you care so much? Look around this room, at all of the desks and research! Think of how much manpower has been spent on removing the havoc caused by the Hospital Hitmen. And now it has! And you want to undo it?" Sam glared at him. "Most people say I'm selfish, but even I wouldn't do that."
"She's my daughter," Earl whispered, helplessly.
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"Why are there streamers everywhere?" Sam asked, kicking his way through twirling pieces of crepe paper that littered the floor intermingled with balloons. Used plastic cups lined the window sills and left rings of water seeping into the corners of desks.
Earl shrugged. "They must have had a breakthrough recently." He sat down at one of the many vacant computers and input the password he'd swiped from Stewart, a naïve and habitually absent-minded friend who kept all of his passwords in a bound notebook that he usually kept in the right breast pocket of his jacket.
He tapped the keys on the keyboard in front of him and one of the 50 or so screens around the room came to life.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked, plopping down in the chair beside him.
"I need to figure how what exactly happened after they went into the woods with the boys."
Sam sighed and propped his feet up on the desk. "You're really not one to just let things go, huh?"
Earl just grunted. The screen in front of them lit with the images of Josephine and Frank following the boys into the woods to see their fort. They were off the main path and trees and shrubs filled in the small trail they were following. The boys didn't have their bikes with them and all four of them were pushing branches and leaves out the way. By the time they reached the clearing where the fort was built, they all had scratches on their arms and legs.
The twins' bikes were lying on their sides in front of the fort which was more a pile of broken sticks and boards thrown together than anything resembling an actual building.
Frank followed them with Josephine hovering behind him clinging to his elbow. On the ground, inside the fort was a bat. It was awake with its wings spread out, hobbling along the ground.
"It's hurt," Frank said. He reached down to pick it up, but Josephine squealed and pulled his arm back.
"No don't!" she said. "It might hurt you."
He laughed. "It won't hurt me. Look, he's tiny and obviously hurt. I'm just going to help him."
He bent down and slowly stretched out his hand towards the bat, trying not to startle it. Josephine turned away and refused to look.
"Ouch!" he shouted. "It bit me!"
"Neat!" One of the boys said. "Maybe now you'll become a vampire."
"I want to be a vampire!" the other boy said, looking extremely jealous.
Earl hit a couple of buttons and the scene started to fast forward. After a couple of minutes, they were in a hospital room. He hit another key and the scene slowed to normal time.
Doctors came in and out. Josephine sat by the bed with his mother, both crying. Other milled about the room as things became more dire. Finally, after more fastforwarding a sheet was pulled up over his face.
The screen faded out as Earl angrily hit another key on the keyboard.
"So that's it. He dies of rabies." Earl said, looking disgusted. "Somehow I need to stop them from meeting those boys." He ran his hands through his hair.
"It's worse than that." Sam said. He'd moved to a different computer while Earl had been engrossed in the scene playing on the screen. "I just figured out why you didn't get fired. Undoing Josephine's timeline is going to harder than you think." He looked over at Earl with a smirk on his face.
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"I want a lawyer," Sam said, scowling at the review panel.
Three people sat on the other side of the table. On the right was a tall, thin woman with long, boney, white fingers. She hadn't stopped tapping them on her open notebook since Sam and Earl walked in.
"Mr. Thiessen, this is not a trial and you are no longer a part of Earth's archaic judicial systems," she said.
In the middle of the trio was a tiny, meek-looking man who was made even smaller by the height of the first woman next to him. Even sitting, his head only came to her shoulder although part of that may have had more to do with how hunched over he was sitting. He had yet to look up at them.
"P-p-please help m-me to understand," the second panelist stuttered. "Why d-d-didn't you r-r-report this im-m-mediately?"
"I thought I could fix it on my own," Earl said. "It seemed an easy fix at the time."
"You are aware of the regulations surrounding time reversal are you not?" asked the third panelist, a plump woman with her hair pulled back severely into a bun."
"I am," Earl replied.
"And yet you reversed Josephine's timeline more than 60 years into the past without research, analyses, or aid?" she asked.
"Yes," Earl replied again.
"I see," she said. She turned back to Sam, "And you were the one responsible for the initial reversal?"
"I'm not saying anything without a—"
"Enough! This is no—" she stopped abruptly when the man in the middle reached out and touched her arm. He leaned to the side and whispered in her ear.
"What—well that-that's clear nepotism!" she sputtered.
He leaned over and whispered further. "Fine," she said, through gritted teeth.
"We've unanimously decided that Samuel Thiessen requires more training and as such will return to the beginning. However," she said while scowling. "He is permitted to continue as an apprentice to the Guardians of Time,"
The woman with the bony fingers raised her eyebrows at this pronouncement, but said nothing.
With that, they began to stand up and gather their things.
"Wait!" Earl said, looking from one to the other. "What about Josephine's timeline? What is the plan to correct course? What resources will be allocated?"
The board look at him in befuddlement. "N-n-none," said the man.
"You're just going to leave her timeline altered?" He was now standing, leaning down on his hands which were balled up in fists on the table.
He continued to argue, but no one was listening as they made a hasty retreat from the room.
"They can't do that!" he said, once they left. "What about Josephine?"
"Why do you care?" Sam asked. "You got off scot-free. I have to redo all of my training. If you want to feel sorry for anyone, feel sorry for me." He sighed dramatically.
"Oh, I do," Earl said. "Because you're the one who's going to help me fix her timeline."


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Cuban Missile Crisis , a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, October 22–28, 1962, that threatened to precipitate nuclear war. Early in the fall of 1962, American reconnaissance planes detected Soviet ballistic missiles and launching facilities in Cuba. Calling the missile deployment an escalation of the Cold War, President Kennedy on October 22 demanded that Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev have the missiles removed and the launching facilities dismantled. He declared a "strict quarantine on all offensive equipment under shipment to Cuba," especially missiles already aboard Soviet ships. Kennedy also placed American forces on full alert, ready, if necessary, to invade Cuba or launch a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.
For several days, nuclear war seemed imminent; however, secret diplomatic negotiations were taking place between the United States and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev eventually backed down. On October 24, Soviet ships bound for Cuba changed course, and on October 28, the Soviet Union announced that the missiles would be withdrawn from Cuba. In return, the United States pledged not to invade the island.
"Cuban Missile Crisis" 27 February 2008.
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Colorado company changing name to add 'hemp,' remove 'pot'
A Colorado CBD maker is changing its name to take the word "pot" out of its title and add "hemp."
PotNetwork Holdings announced Monday the company would change its name to BioTech Hemp.
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PotNetwork Holdings trades on over-the-counter markets as POTN. The company says it plans to file for a name change with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which sets listings for publicly traded companies.
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When working with people from different walks of life on a daily basis, and often requesting them to undertake activities they may not be enthusiastic about, some level of challenging behaviour is inevitable. This is a two session online coaching program designed to build skills in dealing effectively with challenging behaviour from an employment services perspective.
 Understand the principles of how to self-manage and remain resilient in confronting situations.
 How to maintain safe limits and set client expectations.
 Understand how good communication can influence people.
 Learn how to develop effective listening skills and assist clients to develop new skills in communication.
 How to recognise and deal with clients effectively when you feel like you are being provoked.
 Have opportunities through case examples to link theory to practice and application for a safe environment.
Provide a written example of a time when you were confronted by disruptive behaviour and what you did to de-escalate and minimise the effects.
With over six years' experience managing hotels in Melbourne and Geelong, and over ten years' experience in Employment Services in both front line and management roles, Matt has seen it all. He has worked in priority regions where high levels of anti-social behaviour are prevalent. Matt is educated and experienced in conflict management believing that the real secret is to be able to identify a challenging situation and effectively communicate with the individual to gain a mutually agreed outcome.


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by Burhan Marriott 1 week ago
Ed Sheeran's 'Blow' Video is a Gender-Flipped Rock Blowout: Watch
Bruno Mars directed the high-energy clip.
"Blow" is the most rocking tune we've ever heard from Ed Sheeran. So it makes perfect sense that the high-energy video for the track from the singer's upcoming No. 6 Collaborations Project is a banger. Sheeran tapped his co-vocalist on the track, Bruno Mars, to direct the clip, which takes place during a raucous show at Los Angeles' legendary Viper Room club.
Only Sheeran, Mars and country star Chris Stapleton are nowhere to be found in the visual. Instead, they're replaced by an all-female band, with three lead singers who take on their respective parts with furious energy. Sheeran's part is played by former America's Next Top Model contestant Cherish Waters, who gets the head-banging crowd whipped up into a frenzy, while black cowboy hat-wearing model/actress Jordan Kelly DeBarge channels Stapleton while Just Add Magic star Cheyenne Haynes takes on the Mars role.
"Blow," produced by Mars, is the fifth song Sheeran has released from the collaborative album due out on July 12, following up on "I Don't Care" with Justin Bieber, "Beautiful People" with Khalid, "Best Part of Me" with Yebba and "Cross Me" with Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock. Check out the full lineup of Collaborations here.
Watch the "Blow" video below.
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"The Lion King" Celebrates The World Premiere in Hollywood (Photos)
Yesterday on July 9, 2019 in Hollywood was the World Premiere Disney's THE LION KING. Stars in attendance included Donald Glover, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejior, Alfre Woodard, Billy Eichner, John Kani,…
Fredo Bang – Dawg Gone
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Sure Shot – Muddy Waters
@SureShotTD After a successful string videos released at the top this year, Sure Shot (Top Dolla) from the Dunbar collective gives us the Kamsy House visual titled "Muddy Waters." Brought…
Booka600 drops EP ft Durk, King Von, Tee Grizzley + more!
Lil Durk's OTF signee Booka600 embodies the Chicago streets with his passionate reality-based lyrics and penchant for melody. Today he dropped his latest ep, Word To LA in honor his guardian angel and…
T-Kor – Letter To The Game
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Anova Cancer Care's Chief Oncologist spoke to The Prostate Cancer Networking Group on March 19 about his expertise in diagnosing and treating prostate cancer. He was joined by Dr. Fabio Almeida, Medical Director of the Southwest PET/CT Institute.
A retired navy pilot learned that "watchful waiting" for his prostate cancer wasn't enough and he soon turned to the doctors at ACC & CyberKnife treatment.


If you have been following a low carb or grain-free eating plan and thought you had to give up on bread, this two-ingredient version will make you lose your mind.
It has NO GRAINS or flour of any kind - just eggs and whey protein. That means practically ZERO CARBS (just the ones coming from the whey, about 4g for the whole loaf).
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Use middle rack and remove any racks above as bread will expand while baking.
Generously butter a loaf pan/dish (I use a ceramic one).
Beat 6 egg whites until stiff peaks form - a hand mixer on high works well.
Add the whey and the 6 yolks, blend gently on low just until fully incorporated. Batter will be fluffy.
Remove and allow to cool completely. Loaf will sink to a normal height.
Once fully cooled, release from dish, slice and serve.
Go ahead, have a sandwich!
I was inspired by the folks over at Vegas.com to create a special pizza and participate in a virtual pizza party in honor of The International Pizza Expo coming to the Las Vegas Convention Center March 7 - 10, 2016. And who doesn't love pizza?
I picked my personal favorite Las Vegas hotel and themed my pizza after it. My hands-down favorite hotel is The Palazzo. A simple stroll around the expansive and luxurious property transports me to the streets of Venice with quaint little shops, the Grand Canal and gondolas floating by. It's classically elegant and definitely a different experience than almost anywhere else on the strip. So I instantly thought of my Margarita Cauliflower Crust Pizza. It's simple, yet elegant and certainly not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill pizza. Which hotel is your favorite?
This lusciously thin crust made from only cauliflower, Asiago, an egg and some seasoning holds up nicely to its basil, tomato and mozza toppings. It's melt-in-your-mouth delicious. The perfect taste of Italy.
You'll need a pizza stone and a pizza peel. You'll also want to have on hand some parchment paper, a food processor fitted with the cutting blade and a clean, dry kitchen towel that you will use for removing the moisture from the cauliflower.
Immediately top the crust with your shredded Asiago and shredded mozzarella cheeses. Do this FIRST so that it will help hold the crust together.
Lastly, top with thin slices of tomato and buffalo mozzarella.
Remove from oven, garnish with fresh basil and enjoy!


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Q: try parse in linq Hi I have a linq query as below
var perChange = (from data in globalDS.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().AsParallel()
              select data.Field<double>("PercentChange")).ToList();

Now the dataset globalDS contains null as well as varchar values in them. So there is an obvious type cast error that is generated. Is there a way to try.Parse the value in "Percentage Change" column and select only the valid fields.

A: DataRow.Field supports nullable types:
List<double> result = globalDS.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().AsParallel()
             .Where(r  => r.Field<double?>("PercentChange").HasValue)
             .Select(r => r.Field<double?>("PercentChange").Value)
             .ToList();

Edit: Since you have mentioned that the field contains strings instead of doubles:
List<double> result = globalDS.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().AsParallel()
             .Select(r => r.Field<string>("PercentChange").TryGetDouble())
             .Where(nullDouble => nullDouble.HasValue)
             .Select(nullDouble => nullDouble.Value)
             .ToList();

I've used this extension to try-parse a string to double? which is safer than parsing "on the fly" into the local variable, especially with AsParallel:
public static Double? TryGetDouble(this string item, IFormatProvider formatProvider = null)
{
    if (formatProvider == null) formatProvider = NumberFormatInfo.CurrentInfo;
    Double d = 0d;
    bool success = Double.TryParse(item, NumberStyles.Any, formatProvider, out d);
    if (success)
        return d;
    else
        return null;
}

A: How about this:
double temp;

var perChange = (
     from data in globalDS.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().AsParallel()
     where !data.IsNull("PercentChange")
         && double.TryParse(data.Field<string>("PercentChange"), out temp)
     select double.Parse(data.Field<string>("PercentChange"))
    ).ToList();

A: Try a select using a where clause in which you check the type. This would be something like: where x != null && TypeOf(x) == double

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Peñuelas es una localidad mexicana situada en el municipio de San Francisco del Rincón, en el estado de Guanajuato. Tiene 1.500 habitantes.

Localización
La Comunidad de Peñuelas está situada a los 101° 51' 0"  al oeste y a los 20° 52' 0" latitud norte. Su altura sobre el nivel del mar es de 1.740 metros. Posee un casco de más de 200 años de antigüedad, con una galera de piedra de más de 3,000 metros cuadrados. Actualmente comunidad agrícola compuesta de ejidos. Zona con agua abundante extraída de pozos, que facilita el cultivo de papa, maíz, sorgo, entre otras especies. Deposito Peñuelas.

Localidades del municipio de San Francisco del Rincón


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The vehicles of the future run on emission-free hydrogen
That is why Hynion is building hydrogen stations in and around the largest cities in Scandinavia.
Read more about our plans
Hydrogen is a safe option
Green shift
Hydrogen's crucial role
Why you should choose a hydrogen car
Hydrogen stations within the next few years
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Hynion brings with it experience and expertise from more than fifteen years of development and operation of hydrogen stations. We will make this available to customers and users by delivering hydrogen stations with a safe and proven design.
Among the world's most experienced operators of hydrogen stations
Hynion AS offers hydrogen fuel from its station at Høvik in Bærum, right by the E18 west of Oslo. The facility is fully automated, and customers use regular credit cards for refueling. The capacity at Høvik is now being upgraded so that the station can meet expected demand.
Our station at Høvik has been carefully inspected by two different technical inspection bodies, which have found that everything is in accordance with current laws and regulations.
Hynion AS plans to open more hydrogen stations. Hynion has taken over the station in Gothenburg from Woikoski, and work to reopen it is underway. Stations in Porsgrunn and Gøteborg are expected to be operational during 2021.
STRING Megaregion reveals plans to pioneer the green transition of road transport
Jan 19, 2022by Ulf Hafseld
Local and regional governments in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway together with six private companies has applied...
Hynion becomes Sweden's largest supplier of hydrogen fuel for vehicles
Hynion has entered into an agreement to supply buses in Sandviken, Sweden, with hydrogen and, at the same time, takes...
Steady growth in demand
Oct 31, 2021by Ulf Hafseld
Hynion observes that more and more cars are coming to refuel at Høvik and that volumes are increasing. In October, the...
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France hopes to promote all-round relations with Belarus
MINSK, 25 January (BelTA) - France hopes to promote all-round relations with Belarus, reads a message from French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development Jean-Marc Ayrault to Belarus' Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Makei on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two nations, BelTA learned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.
"I deeply and sincerely hope for the long-term development of our relations in all fields: economy, politics and university cooperation. We must constantly promote the development of the relations and take all measures to implement our joint projects," the message says.
The minister noted that the countries have all the possibilities to expand the interaction. "I am happy that the next meeting of the joint economic commission will be held in Belarus. It was preceded by the second successful session which was held in Paris in May 2016," the minister said.


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Farmers and members of Dalit Seva Samiti protest against Thursday's police lathicharge in Bengaluru on Friday. Photo: AP/PTI
10,000 farmers protest unequal water distribution in drought-hit state
3 min read . Updated: 16 Mar 2016, 01:40 AM IST Nidheesh M.K., Rahul Chandran
Farmers argue that dire water crisis could have been avoided had the govt taken care of the villages as much as the industrial houses, residents in Bengaluru
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Bengaluru: Many of the 10,000-odd farmers who showed up on tractors to protest against the extreme inequity in drinking water distribution on Thursday did not expect Bengaluru to understand their problem.
"After all," as a pink-shirted man wearing a green turban sitting at the wheel of one of those tractors put it, "they are getting enough water. But from January onwards, we are getting water barely once a week."
The man was one of the thousands who were idling tractors on an arterial road, blocking thousands of vehicles coming to the city from the airport side. Before they could reach Vidhana Soudha, the legislative assembly building, the tractors decorated with empty plastic pots were stopped by the police in at least six different locations.
At one point, the police put two state transport buses and other barricades on the roads to stop them. But farmers pressed the accelerator pedal, pushing back the police barricades. They threw footwear and broke the glass panes of the buses, shouting slogans demanding water, when the police resorted to a lathicharge.
"They are beating us up because we are causing problems to Bangalore traffic," said the man quoted above, while getting down from the tractor as demanded by the police.
Bengaluru consumes 1,800 million litres (MLD) of water per day, according to Karnataka government. The city gets water almost 24x7, and the supply is augmented by about 400,000 tubewells in the city. People in the hinterland aren't as fortunate.
"Farmers have been protesting for the past 165 days in Kolar and Chikballapur, we didn't hear anything from the government. That's why we are here," said Anjaneya Reddy, one of the leaders of the protest, before he was chased down and taken over by the police during the agitation.
Water scarcity is not new for Karnataka. But it has surely sharpened after it received the worst monsoon rains in nearly half a century last year. With the next monsoon almost four months away, the water crisis has peaked in many regions in the south Indian state which had declared 28 out of its 30 districts drought-hit last August.
Farmers argue that this would not have happened had the government taken care of the people in villages as much as the industrial houses and residents in Bengaluru. Thursday's protest was to drive home this point, said Reddy.
But all of it may be only wishful thinking. In the state assembly session that started on Monday, legislators from both treasury and opposition benches have been discussing only one agenda: why does chief minister Siddaramaiah, a known socialist, wear a luxury watch?
In fact, urban experts have been highlighting how the upward spiral of India's fastest growing city masks the neglect faced by over half the population living on the outskirts of the city.
Last July, a three-member committee—set up to come up with a plan to tackle the huge infrastructure and other urban issues in the city known as India's Silicon Valley—noted that while the population of Bengaluru city grew by only 18% in the last decade, the outer periphery grew by over 100%.
However, they are largely neglected by the administration when it comes to providing power, connectivity and water supply, the committee noted.
Also, the depth of fresh groundwater has increased from 33 ft in the 1990s to 132 ft in 2015, according to data from the Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board (KUWSSB).
"The resolution for Kolar and Chikbalapur problems would be to break down the areas and serve them with small water-sheds and aquifers (underground reservoirs), and work towards getting sustainability to each one of the smaller micro-water sheds," said S. Vishwanath, advisor for Arghyam, a Bengaluru-based foundation focused on domestic water and sanitation.
The only solution for fast-growing Indian cities to be self-sufficient in water resources is to treat its waste water, says M. Thippeswamy, former chief engineer at Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewage Board (BWSSB). "Cities like Singapore and Brisbane treat a significant portion of their daily total water usage," he said.
"The trick is not to focus on big projects that will have to get water from many hundred miles away but to become self-sufficient, especially by treating waste water," said Thippeswamy.
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To all Veterans, I offer you my heartfelt thanks on this day, and all days, for all that you do and have done in the name of liberty, freedom, duty and justice.
I strive to remember, on this day and all days, that the liberties I enjoy, the freedom that I have to live my life, to spend time with my family in peace, to work for a better life, and even to spend time in idle play within the virtual world of a video game or to blog about it endlessly, is all due to your hard work and personal sacrifice.
Veterans, truly, for all that you have done, and all that you continue to do, you have my gratitude, freely and without reservation.
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Thank you for your post. It's good to see there are so many fellow Vets around. I am also a disabled vet but far more fortunate than others as my disability does not prevent me from working nor have too much of an influence on my daily life (just a few visits to the VA during the year… speaking of bad coffee).
I'd like to add my thanks as well.
As I learned more about WW II, and other conflicts, and talked with relatives who served – my appreciation has only grown.
but I support our people in the front lines. Always.
We owe them the best support, training and equipment we can provide while they're deployed, and proper benefits when they return.
And our heartfelt thanks, always.
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The cafeteria at my workplace gave all veterans free drinks, coffee, etc. Unfortunately the quality of their food make those even thinking of getting something else have a nervous breakdown from stress.
At risk of advertising on your site (just nuke this comment if needed) a friend of mine and I just got back from eating lunch at Applebees. Show proof of service and your meal is free. (pay for your own drinks and tip).
Nice to see someplace giving back.
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Thanks BBB! Same to you and Happy Veterans Day to all our our servicemen and servicewomen – past, present, and future.